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This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA
is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

This dataset comprises the third follow-up of the baseline
Hispanic EPESE, HISPANIC ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC
STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1993-1994: [ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, NEW
MEXICO, AND TEXAS] (ICPSR 2851), and provides information on 1,682 of
the original respondents. The Hispanic EPESE collected data on a
representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican-American elderly,
aged 65 years and older, residing in the five southwestern states of
Arizona, California, Colo... (more info)

This dataset comprises the third follow-up of the baseline
Hispanic EPESE, HISPANIC ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC
STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1993-1994: [ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, NEW
MEXICO, AND TEXAS] (ICPSR 2851), and provides information on 1,682 of
the original respondents. The Hispanic EPESE collected data on a
representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican-American elderly,
aged 65 years and older, residing in the five southwestern states of
Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The primary
purpose of the series was to provide estimates of the prevalence of
key physical health conditions, mental health conditions, and
functional impairments in older Mexican Americans and to compare these
estimates with those for other populations. The Hispanic EPESE
attempted to determine whether certain risk factors for mortality and
morbidity operate differently in Mexican Americans than in
non-Hispanic White Americans, African Americans, and other major
ethnic groups. The public-use data cover background characteristics
(age, sex, type of Hispanic race, income, education, marital status,
number of children, employment, and religion), height, weight, social
and physical functioning, chronic conditions, related health problems,
health habits, self-reported use of dental, hospital, and nursing home
services, and depression. The follow-ups provide a cross-sectional
examination of the predictors of mortality, changes in health
outcomes, and institutionalization and other changes in living
arrangements, as well as changes in life situations and quality of
life issues. The vital status of respondents from baseline to this
round of the survey may be determined using the Vital Status file
(Part 2). This file contains interview dates from the baseline as well
as vital status at Wave IV (respondent survived, date of death if
deceased, proxy-assisted, proxy-reported cause of death,
proxy-true). The first follow-up of the baseline data (Hispanic EPESE
Wave II, 1995-1996 [ICPSR 3385]) followed 2,438 of the original 3,050
respondents, and the second follow-up (Hispanic EPESE Wave III,
1998-1999 [ICPSR 4102]) followed 1,980 of these respondents. Hispanic
EPESE, 1993-1994 (ICPSR 2851), was modeled after the design of
ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY,
1981-1993: [EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES,
IOWA, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR
9915) and ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE
ELDERLY, 1996-1997: PIEDMONT HEALTH SURVEY OF THE ELDERLY, FOURTH
IN-PERSON SURVEY [DURHAM, WARREN, VANCE, GRANVILLE, AND FRANKLIN
COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR 2744).

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: